Miner gets 3 years, fined $210,000 for narco-trafficking

A miner was on Tuesday sentenced to three years’ imprisonmen

t and fined $210,000 after pleading guilty to trafficking 140 grams of marijuana.
Twenty-four-year-old Travis Eudoxie of Fitzburg, Port Kaituma, North West District, Region One (Barima-Waini), appeared before Magistrate Dellon Bess at the Matthew’s Ridge Magistrate’s Court.
The court heard that on August 18, 2020, at Four Miles, Port Kaituma, North West District (NWD), he had 140 grams of marijuana in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.
Facts presented by a Police Constable detailed that on the day in question, police ranks were patrolling in the area when they observed Eudoxie riding an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) with registration plates CH 9498. At the time, he was acting in a suspicious manner.
However, the ranks approached him and requested to conduct a search on his person, during which the illegal item was unearthed. The ganja was reportedly found in a black plastic bag, wrapped in transparent plastic.
He was told of the offence committed and immediately denied ownership. He claimed that the illegal item belonged to someone else.
The lawmen informed the man of the allegation levelled against him but he also denied. They were both arrested and escorted to the Port Kaituma Police Station, where the suspected cannabis was weighed in their presence and amounted to 140 grams.
The businessman is still in custody while Eudoxie was charged.